Patents by Inventor Akihiko Maemura
Akihiko Maemura has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 9041268Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes a rotor core in which first magnetic pole portions having permanent magnets and second magnetic pole portions having no permanent magnets are alternately arranged in a circumferential direction; and a stator core which is arranged to face an outer periphery of the rotor core. The rotor core is configured such that an average gap length between the stator core and the second magnetic pole portions is larger than an average gap length between the stator core and the first magnetic pole portions.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2013Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKIInventors: Kenji Tomohara, Akihiko Maemura
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Publication number: 20140285055Abstract: A wound member for manufacturing a coil is a wound member for manufacturing a coil for manufacturing a coil wound around a slot of a stator core. The wound member for manufacturing a coil includes: a first side to be an end side at one side of a coil end disposed at an inner peripheral side of the stator core; a second side disposed opposite to the first side, the second side being to be an end side at another side of a coil end disposed at an outer peripheral side of the stator core; and a third side and a fourth side that respectively couple the first side and the second side. The first side has a length shorter than a length of the second side.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2014Publication date: September 25, 2014Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKIInventors: Kenji TOMOHARA, Akihiko MAEMURA, Takeshi INOUE, Norimasa ADACHI, Junichi YASUKAWA
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Publication number: 20140285052Abstract: A coil includes: a coil main body in which one coil end in an axial direction is bent to an inner peripheral side of a stator core including a tooth having an protrusion preventing portion configured to prevent the coil from protruding to the inner peripheral side of the stator core; and a relief portion provided for a portion of the coil main body that is bent to the inner peripheral side of the stator core. The relief portion is configured to release the protrusion preventing portion of the tooth when the coil main body is inserted into a slot of the stator core in the axial direction from one coil end in the axial direction that is bent to the inner peripheral side of the stator core.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2014Publication date: September 25, 2014Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKIInventors: Kenji TOMOHARA, Akihiko MAEMURA, Takeshi INOUE, Norimasa ADACHI, Junichi YASUKAWA
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Publication number: 20140285056Abstract: A wound member for manufacturing a coil for manufacturing a coil wound around a slot of a stator core, the wound member for manufacturing a coil includes: a first side and a second side disposed opposite one another so as to be end sides of coil ends; and a third side and a fourth side that respectively couple the first side and the second side, wherein at least one of the first side and the second side is wrapped such that a side end at an outer peripheral side is shifted to an outer peripheral side to form a side end at an outer peripheral side to be an approximately flat surface when the first side and the second side become end sides of the coil ends.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2014Publication date: September 25, 2014Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa DenkiInventors: Kenji TOMOHARA, Akihiko MAEMURA, Takeshi INOUE, Norimasa ADACHI, Junichi YASUKAWA
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Patent number: 8760026Abstract: A rotor includes first and second permanent magnets provided in each magnetic pole inside a rotor core. The rotor is configured such that when a first end of the first permanent magnet located on the outer circumferential side of the rotor core and the second permanent magnet side is located at a position that faces a first end in the circumferential direction of one of teeth of a stator, a second end of the first permanent magnet located on the axis of rotation side of the rotor core and the second permanent magnet side is located at a position that faces a second end in the circumferential direction of the tooth that faces the first end of the first permanent magnet.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2012Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa DenkiInventors: Takeo Suzuki, Akihiko Maemura, Yosuke Kawazoe, Yuto Fukuma, Kenji Tomohara
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Patent number: 8546990Abstract: A permanent magnet synchronous rotating electric machine includes a rotor and a stator. The rotor includes a first hole, a second hole, a first magnet, and a second magnet. The second hole is provided on an opposite side with respect to a center line extending along a radial direction of the rotor. The first magnet is provided in the first hole and extends along a first longitudinal axis inclined at a first acute angle with respect to the center line. The second magnet is provided in the second hole and extends along a second longitudinal axis inclined at a second acute angle with respect to the center line. The second acute angle is smaller than the first acute angle.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2012Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa DenkiInventors: Takeo Suzuki, Akihiko Maemura, Yosuke Kawazoe, Yuto Fukuma, Takeshi Inoue
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Patent number: 8427023Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor core; and first and second permanent magnets arranged in the core such that each of the first magnets corresponds to one of the second magnets and, on a cross-sectional plane of the rotor core perpendicular to a rotation axis thereof, a first line passing through the first magnet and a second line passing through the second magnet meet at a point pointing toward the rotation axis. The first and second magnets are arranged such that a straight line interconnecting the rotation axis and the point is interposed therebetween, an angle of the first magnet relative to the straight line being smaller than that of the second magnet relative to the straight line, and a width of the first magnet in the direction parallel to the first line being smaller than that of the second magnet in the direction parallel to the second line.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2012Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa DenkiInventors: Akihiko Maemura, Kenji Tomohara, Takeo Suzuki
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Patent number: 8319387Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor core; and first permanent magnets and second permanent magnets arranged in the rotor core so that, on a cross-sectional plane of the rotor core perpendicular to the rotation axis thereof, the first and second magnets corresponding to each other define the letter V having an apex pointing toward the rotation axis. The first and second magnets corresponding to each other are arranged so that a straight line interconnecting the rotation axis and the apex of the letter V is interposed therebetween, an angle of the first magnet relative to the straight line being smaller than that of the second magnet relative to the straight line, a width of the first magnet in the direction parallel to the first side of the letter V being smaller than that of the second magnet in the direction parallel to the second side of the letter V.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2011Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa DenkiInventors: Akihiko Maemura, Kenji Tomohara, Takeo Suzuki
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Publication number: 20120256508Abstract: A permanent magnet synchronous rotating electric machine includes a rotor and a stator. The rotor includes a first hole, a second hole, a first magnet, and a second magnet. The second hole is provided on an opposite side with respect to a center line extending along a radial direction of the rotor. The first magnet is provided in the first hole and extends along a first longitudinal axis inclined at a first acute angle with respect to the center line. The second magnet is provided in the second hole and extends along a second longitudinal axis inclined at a second acute angle with respect to the center line. The second acute angle is smaller than the first acute angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2012Publication date: October 11, 2012Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKIInventors: Takeo SUZUKI, Akihiko MAEMURA, Yosuke KAWAZOE, Yuto FUKUMA, Takeshi INOUE
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Publication number: 20120212095Abstract: A rotor includes first and second permanent magnets provided in each magnetic pole inside a rotor core. The rotor is configured such that when a first end of the first permanent magnet located on the outer circumferential side of the rotor core and the second permanent magnet side is located at a position that faces a first end in the circumferential direction of one of teeth of a stator, a second end of the first permanent magnet located on the axis of rotation side of the rotor core and the second permanent magnet side is located at a position that faces a second end in the circumferential direction of the tooth that faces the first end of the first permanent magnet.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 29, 2012Publication date: August 23, 2012Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKIInventors: Takeo SUZUKI, Akihiko MAEMURA, Yosuke KAWAZOE, Yuto FUKUMA, Kenji TOMOHARA
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Patent number: 8227953Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor core, a first magnet, a second magnet, a first pole partition line, and a second pole partition line. The first and second magnets are provided inside the rotor core and between the first and second pole partition line. The first magnet is closer to the first pole partition line than to the second pole partition line, and the second magnet is closer to the second pole partition line than to the first pole partition line. A distance between the first and second magnets at a position is wider as the position is closer to a circumference portion of the rotor core. The first magnet and the first pole partition line have a first minimum distance therebetween, the second magnet and the second pole partition line have a second minimum distance therebetween, and the first minimum distance is smaller than the second minimum distance.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2011Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa DenkiInventors: Takeo Suzuki, Akihiko Maemura, Yosuke Kawazoe, Yuto Fukuma, Takeshi Inoue
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Publication number: 20110266910Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor core, a first magnet, a second magnet, a first pole partition line, and a second pole partition line. The first and second magnets are provided inside the rotor core and between the first and second pole partition line. The first magnet is closer to the first pole partition line than to the second pole partition line, and the second magnet is closer to the second pole partition line than to the first pole partition line. A distance between the first and second magnets at a position is wider as the position is closer to a circumference portion of the rotor core. The first magnet and the first pole partition line have a first minimum distance therebetween, the second magnet and the second pole partition line have a second minimum distance therebetween, and the first minimum distance is smaller than the second minimum distance.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2011Publication date: November 3, 2011Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKIInventors: Takeo SUZUKI, Akihiko Maemura, Yosuke Kawazoe, Yuto Fukuma, Takeshi Inoue
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Patent number: 8008825Abstract: An electromagnetic steel plate forming member provides the two magnet holes for inserting therein the two permanent magnets per pole along the V-shape, which are provided in the region of the radial pole pitch lines OP provided in the rotor core at the predetermined pole pitch angle ?, one magnet hole is displaced in a direction apart from the center line OC of the pole pitch lines OP, and the other magnet hole is displaced in a direction approaching to the center line OC of the pole pitch lines OP.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2007Date of Patent: August 30, 2011Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa DenkiInventors: Takeo Suzuki, Akihiko Maemura, Yosuke Kawazoe, Yuto Fukuma, Takeshi Inoue
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Publication number: 20110169364Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor core; and first permanent magnets and second permanent magnets arranged in the rotor core so that, on a cross-sectional plane of the rotor core perpendicular to the rotation axis thereof, the first and second magnets corresponding to each other define the letter V having an apex pointing toward the rotation axis. The first and second magnets corresponding to each other are arranged so that a straight line interconnecting the rotation axis and the apex of the letter V is interposed therebetween, an angle of the first magnet relative to the straight line being smaller than that of the second magnet relative to the straight line, a width of the first magnet in the direction parallel to the first side of the letter V being smaller than that of the second magnet in the direction parallel to the second side of the letter V.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2011Publication date: July 14, 2011Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKIInventors: Akihiko MAEMURA, Kenji Tomohara, Takeo Suzuki
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Patent number: 7825548Abstract: The cylindrical linear motor includes: a stator 1 that has a plurality of coils 5 coiled in a cylindrical shape and arranged in an axial direction on an inner side of a metal pipe 4; a mover 2 disposed to face an inner side of the stator 1 with a magnetic gap therebetween and having a plurality of permanent magnets 6 inserted in the axial direction into a cylindrical can 9; shafts 8 inserted into the mover 2; shaft support members 7 for supporting the shafts 8 at both axial ends of the metal pipe 4; and shaft receiving member 10 each disposed at both ends of an inner side of the can 9 to be adjacent to the permanent magnets 6 and having a concave portion 10a for fitting to a cone of the shaft 8.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2006Date of Patent: November 2, 2010Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa DenkiInventors: Akihiko Maemura, Yosuke Kawazoe, Takeo Suzuki, Yuto Fukuma
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Patent number: 7619377Abstract: A linear motor system that can extend the stroke of a linear motor, with power saving and at a low cost, is provided. In a linear motor system, constituted by a linear motor 100, a controller 7 for supplying a variable voltage, a winding switching device 6, for opening and closing phase windings 5 of individual phases that form a plurality of winding groups 4 that are separated in a stroke direction, the winding switching device 6 is constituted by a three-phase rectifying member, a semiconductor switch, which is located at both ends on the direct-current output side of the three-phase rectifying member, and a resistor and a capacitor, connected in parallel to the semiconductor switch. For each of the phase windings, which form the plurality of winding groups 4, separated in the stroke direction, one end is connected to the output end of the controller 7 and the other end is connected to an alternating-current input side of the three-phase rectifying member of the winding switching device 6.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2005Date of Patent: November 17, 2009Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa DenkiInventors: Kenji Yamada, Akihiko Maemura, Shinya Morimoto, Toru Shikayama, Yoshiyuki Tanaka, Mamoru Takaki
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Publication number: 20090033157Abstract: The cylindrical linear motor includes: a stator 1 that has a plurality of coils 5 coiled in a cylindrical shape and arranged in an axial direction on an inner side of a metal pipe 4; a mover 2 disposed to face an inner side of the stator 1 with a magnetic gap therebetween and having a plurality of permanent magnets 6 inserted in the axial direction into a cylindrical can 9; shafts 8 inserted into the mover 2; shaft support members 7 for supporting the shafts 8 at both axial ends of the metal pipe 4; and shaft receiving member 10 each disposed at both ends of an inner side of the can 9 to be adjacent to the permanent magnets 6 and having a concave portion 10a for fitting to a cone of the shaft 8.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2006Publication date: February 5, 2009Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKIInventors: Akihiko Maemura, Yosuke Kawazoe, Takeo Suzuki, Yuto Fukuma
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Publication number: 20080231135Abstract: An electromagnetic steel plate forming member provides the two magnet holes for inserting therein the two permanent magnets per pole along the V-shape, which are provided in the region of the radial pole pitch lines OP provided in the rotor core at the predetermined pole pitch angle ?, one magnet hole is displaced in a direction apart from the center line OC of the pole pitch lines OP, and the other magnet hole is displaced in a direction approaching to the center line OC of the pole pitch lines OP.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2007Publication date: September 25, 2008Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKIInventors: Takeo SUZUKI, Akihiko MAEMURA, Yosuke KAWAZOE, Yuto FUKUMA, Takeshi INOUE
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Publication number: 20080106155Abstract: A linear motor system that can extend the stroke of a linear motor, with power saving and at a low cost, is provided. In a linear motor system, constituted by a linear motor 100, a controller 7 for supplying a variable voltage, a winding switching device 6, for opening and closing phase windings 5 of individual phases that form a plurality of winding groups 4 that are separated in a stroke direction, the winding switching device 6 is constituted by a three-phase rectifying member, a semiconductor switch, which is located at both ends on the direct-current output side of the three-phase rectifying member, and a resistor and a capacitor, connected in parallel to the semiconductor switch. For each of the phase windings, which form the plurality of winding groups 4, separated in the stroke direction, one end is connected to the output end of the controller 7 and the other end is connected to an alternating-current input side of the three-phase rectifying member of the winding switching device 6.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2005Publication date: May 8, 2008Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKIInventors: Kenji Yamada, Akihiko Maemura, Shinya Morimoto, Toru Shikayama, Yoshiyuki Tanaka, Mamoru Takaki
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Patent number: 6628038Abstract: A disklike rotor is placed with air gaps between disklike stators. The disklike rotor has a sheet coil attached to its sides, on which are formed the secondary coil pattern of a rotary transformer and a resolver excitation phase pattern. A sheet coil having the secondary coil pattern of the rotary transformer is attached to the stator opposed to the secondary coil pattern on the rotor, while a sheet coil having a resolver detection phase pattern is attached to the stator opposed to the resolver excitation phase pattern on the rotor. This resolver using a sheet coil is inexpensive and small-sized, decreases angular errors, and avoids the decrease in detection voltage. The variation in amplitude of flux linkage can be limited if there is misalignment of a sheet coil.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2001Date of Patent: September 30, 2003Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa KenkiInventors: Toru Shikayama, Akihiko Maemura, Takashi Katsuma